Posts by Stephen Judd
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I can buy an 80 square metre kitset home & have it built, plumbed & powered, whiteware included for less than $150k.
Yes, and I could bust out of it any time I liked by shouldering the door. Assuming that the figure quoted was credible, it wouldn't surprise me if making things secure, fireproof, and safe for a lone correction officer is what bumps up the cost.
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But if I'm writing something more fast-paced and urgent, I'll use 'naked'. It's that whacking great k sound in the middle.
And yet "starkers" lacks that libidinal charge.
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Is there anything else we'd be looking for in a supermayor? Just sayin'.
A willingness to do whatever Robyn Gallagher tells them.
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I agree with all praise above.
Some people don't make much if any progress. My aunt had a stroke three or four years ago and is still almost completely speechless and unable to walk. My grandmother died within a few weeks of her stroke. When I read this story of recovery this knowledge increases my sense of how precious these gains are.
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Heather, thank you. I have only just realised that the "(at best)" is ambiguous and likely meant the exact opposite of how I took it.
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Incidentally, drawing attention to something by claiming you're going to ignore it is called paralipsis.
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Craig, no one called you a liar. You were called out, rightly so, for this little jab:
complaining that she's (at best) being textually harassed
Frankly, I mostly avoid your comments these days, because the rhetorical wrappings completely obscure whatever sense might be lurking in them. If you find you're being misconstrued a lot, maybe you should give up the rhetorical flourishes and move to a plainer style.
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Yes, I think we need to distinguish places owned by the public from places used by the public.
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Robyn for Mayor of New Zealand, I say.
Apropos the SH1 re-routing: the map is too sketchy and the text too vague. But ko Taupiri te maunga , there's no way in hell Tainui would take that lying down.
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I think we can lay claim to "than what" too. As in:
If I had of been him I'd of done something different that what he'd of done.